The person responsible within the meaning of data protection laws, in particular the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), is:

City of Forchheim, public corporation
represented by the lord mayor Uwe Kirschstein
Schulstraße 1 – 3
91301 Forchheim
Phone: 09191/714-0
Fax: 09191/714-206
E-Mail: stadt@forchheim.de
Sales tax identification number: DE16SFO00000084071
Responsible supervisory authority: Landratsamt Forchheim, Am Streckerplatz 3, 91301 Forchheim

Editorial responsibility

Mr. Nico Cieslar
Tourist-Information
Kapellenstraße 16
91301 Forchheim
Phone 09191/714-338
Fax: 09191/714-206
E-Mail: info@walk-of-beer.de

Your rights as a person affected

You can exercise the following rights at any time under the contact details of our Data Protection Officer:

  • Information about your data stored by us and its processing (Art. 15 GDPR),
  • rectification of inaccurate personal data (Art. 16 GDPR),
  • deletion of your data stored by us (Art. 17 GDPR),
  • Restriction of data processing, provided that we are not yet allowed to delete your data due to legal obligations (Art. 18 GDPR),
  • Objection to the processing of your data with us (Art. 21 GDPR) and
  • Data portability, provided that you have consented to the data processing or have concluded a contract with us (Art. 20 GDPR).

If you have given us your consent, you can revoke it at any time with effect for the future.

You can complain to a supervisory authority at any time, e.g. to the competent supervisory authority of the state of your domicile or to the competent authority for us as the responsible authority.

A list of the supervisory authorities (for the non-public area) with addresses can be found at: https://www.bfdi.bund.de/DE/Infothek/Anschriften_Links/anschriften_links-node.html.

Collecting general information when visiting our website

Type and purpose of processing:

When you access our website, i.e. if you do not register or otherwise transmit information, information of a general nature is automatically collected. This information (server log files) includes, for example, the type of web browser, the operating system used, the domain name of your Internet service provider, your IP address and the like.

In particular, they are processed for the following purposes:

  • Ensuring a smooth connection of the website,
  • Ensuring the smooth use of our website,
  • Evaluation of system security and stability as well as
  • to optimize our website.

We do not use your data to draw conclusions about you personally. Information of this kind may be statistically evaluated anonymously by us in order to optimize our website and the technology behind it.

Legal basis and legitimate interest:

The processing is carried out in accordance with Article 6(6) of the 1 lit. f GDPR based on our legitimate interest in improving the stability and functionality of our website.

Recipient:

Recipients of the data may be technical service providers who act as processors for the operation and maintenance of our website.

Storage time:

The data will be deleted as soon as it is no longer necessary for the purpose of the collection. For the data used to provide the website, this is generally the case when the respective session has ended.

If the data is stored in log files, this is the case after 14 days at the latest. Storage beyond this is possible. In this case, the IP addresses of the users are anonymized so that they can no longer be assigned to the calling client.

Provision required or required:

The provision of the aforementioned personal data is not required by law or contract. Without the IP address, however, the service and functionality of our website is not guaranteed. In addition, individual services and services may not be available or restricted. For this reason, an objection is excluded.

Cookies

Like many other websites, we also use so-called “cookies”. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your end device (laptop, tablet, smartphone, etc.) when you visit our website.

You can delete individual cookies or the entire set of cookies. You will also receive information and instructions on how to delete these cookies or block their storage in advance. Depending on the provider of your browser, you will find the necessary information under the following links:

Storage period and used cookies:

If you allow us to use cookies through your browser settings or consent, the following cookies can be used on our websites:

Essential

Essential cookies enable basic functions and are necessary for the proper functioning of the website.

WPML

NameWPML
ProviderOwner of this website
PurposeStores the current language.
Cookie Name_icl_*, wpml_*, wp-wpml_*
Cookie Expiry1 Day

External media

The content of video platforms and social media platforms is blocked by default. If cookies are accepted by external media, access to this content no longer requires manual consent.

Google Maps

NameGoogle Maps
ProviderGoogle Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland
PurposeUsed to unlock Google Maps content.
Privacy Policyhttps://policies.google.com/privacy
Host(s).google.com
Cookie NameNID
Cookie Expiry6 Months

Technically necessary cookies

Type and purpose of processing:

We use cookies to make our website more user-friendly. Some elements of our website require that the calling browser can also be identified after changing pages.

The purpose of using technically necessary cookies is to simplify the use of websites for users. Some functions of our website cannot be offered without the use of cookies. For this it is necessary that the browser is recognized even after changing pages.

We need cookies for the following applications:

Acceptance of language settings

Legal basis and legitimate interest:

The processing is carried out in accordance with Article 6(6) of the 1 lit. f GDPR based on our legitimate interest in a user-friendly design of our website.

Recipient:

The recipients of the data may be technical service providers who act as processors for the operation and maintenance of our website.

Provision required or required:

The provision of the aforementioned personal data is not required by law or contract. Without this data, however, the service and functionality of our website cannot be guaranteed. In addition, individual services and services may not be available or restricted.

Contradiction

Please read the information about your right of objection according to Art. 21 GDPR below.

Technically unnecessary cookies

We also use cookies to better tailor the offer on our website to the interests of our visitors or to improve it in general on the basis of statistical evaluations.

Please refer to the information below on the display, tracking, remarketing and web analysis technologies used to find out which providers set cookies.

Legal basis:

The legal basis for this processing is your consent, Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a GDPR.

Recipient:

The recipients of the data may be technical service providers who act as processors for the operation and maintenance of our website.

For further recipients, please refer to the information below on the display, tracking, remarketing and web analysis technologies used.

Third country transfer:

For information on this, please refer to the lists of the individual display, tracking, remarketing and web analysis providers.

Provision required or required:

Of course, you can also view our website without cookies. Web browsers are regularly set to accept cookies. In general, you can deactivate the use of cookies at any time via the settings of your browser (see Revocation of Consent).

Please note that individual functions of our website may not work if you have deactivated the use of cookies.

Withdrawal of consent:

You can revoke your consent at any time via our Cookie-Consent-Tool.

Contact

Type and purpose of processing:

The data you enter will be stored for the purpose of individual communication with you. This requires a valid e-mail address and your name. This is used to assign the request and then answer it. Specifying additional data is optional.

Legal basis:

The data entered in the contact form are processed on the basis of a legitimate interest (Art. 6 sec. 1 lit. f GDPR).

By providing the contact form, we would like to enable you to contact us in an uncomplicated manner. Your information will be stored for the purpose of processing the request as well as for possible follow-up questions.

If you contact us to request an offer, the data entered in the contact form will be processed for the implementation of pre-contractual measures (Art. 6 sec. 1 lit. b GDPR).

Recipient:

Recipients of the data may be processors.

Storage time:

Data will be deleted no later than 6 months after processing the request.

Insofar as a contractual relationship arises, we are subject to the statutory retention periods according to the German Commercial Code (HGB) and delete your data after the expiry of these periods.

Provision required or required:

Your personal data will be provided voluntarily. However, we can only process your request if you provide us with your name, e-mail address and the reason for the request.

Using Google Maps

We use Google Maps on this website. Google Maps is operated by Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheater Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (hereinafter “Google”). This allows us to display interactive maps directly on the website and enable you to use the map function conveniently.
You can find more information about data processing by Google in the Google data protection information: https://policies.google.com/privacy. There you can also change your personal privacy settings in the Privacy Center.

You can find detailed instructions for managing your own data in connection with Google products here: https://www.dataliberation.org

When you visit the website, Google receives information that you have accessed the corresponding subpage of our website. This is done regardless of whether Google provides a user account through which you are logged in or whether there is no user account. If you are logged in to Google, your data will be mapped directly to your account.

If you do not want the assignment in your profile on Google, you must log out of Google before activating the button. Google saves your data as a usage profile and uses it for advertising, market research and / or needs-based design of its websites. Such an evaluation takes place in particular (even for users who are not logged in) to provide needs-based advertising and to inform other users of the social network about your activities on our website. You have a right to object to the creation of these user profiles, and you must contact Google to exercise this.

Withdrawal of consent:

The provider currently does not offer the option of simply opting out or blocking data transmission. If you want to prevent your activities on our website from being tracked, please revoke your consent for the relevant cookie category or for all technically unnecessary cookies and data transfers in Cookie-Consent-Tool. In this case, however, you may not be able to use our website or only to a limited extent.

SSL encryption

In order to protect the security of your data during transmission, we use the state-of-the-art encryption method (e.g. SSL) over HTTPS.

Employed processor

The following organisations, companies or persons have been commissioned by the operator of this website to process data:

Mediendesign Benjamin Strüh
Brunnenplatz 5
96117 Memmelsdorf, OT Meedensdorf

Phone: 09505 4509617
Mobile: 0151 11507607
Email: info@mediendesign-strueh.de


Information about your right of objection according to Art. 21 GDPR

Right to object on a case-by-case basis

You have the right, for reasons that arise from your particular situation, to object at any time to the processing of personal data relating to you, which is based on Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR (data processing on the basis of a balance of interests) takes place, to lodge an objection; this also applies to profiling based on this provision within the meaning of Art. 4 No. 4 GDPR.

If you object, we will no longer process your personal data unless we can prove compelling legitimate reasons for the processing that outweigh your interests, rights and freedoms, or the processing serves to assert, exercise or defend legal claims.

Recipient of an objection

City of Forchheim, public corporation
represented by the lord mayor Uwe Kirschstein
Schulstraße 1 – 3
91301 Forchheim
Phone: 09191/714-0
Fax: 09191/714-206
E-Mail: stadt@forchheim.de
Sales tax identification number: DE16SFO00000084071
Responsible supervisory authority: Landratsamt Forchheim, Am Streckerplatz 3, 91301 Forchheim


Changing our privacy policy

We reserve the right to amend this Privacy Policy to ensure that it always complies with current legal requirements or to implement changes to our services in the Privacy Policy, e.g. when introducing new services. The new data protection declaration will apply to your new visit.

Questions to the data protection officer

If you have any questions about data protection, please send us an email or contact the person responsible for data protection in our organization directly:

Data protection officer of the city of Forchheim

If you have any questions about data protection at the City of Forchheim, please contact:
Phone: +49 9191 714 – 261
Fax: +49 9191 714 – 370
datenschutz@forchheim.de

Bavarian National Commissioner for Data protection

For more information on the subject of data protection, please go to
Bavarian National Commissioner for Data Protection (BayLfD),
Phone: 089/212672-0
Fax: 089/212672-50
E-Mail: poststelle@datenschutz-bayern.de

The data protection declaration was created with the help of activeMind AG, the experts for external data protection officers (Version # 2020-09-30).